atra_m0rs
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Not super new to the forum, I owned a 2008 4runner about a year or so ago. I got rid of it since my work provided me with a vehicle.
Long story short, we missed it, but this time we didn’t want new. I had my heart set on a 3rd GEN Sport. I came across a '00 5 Speed Sport (181K) in December of 2013 after looking for 3-4 months. I had it looked over at my local Toyota dealership. With me working parts at a VW dealership, my next door neighbor is our Toyota dealership.
RUST....RUST...RUST and several holes. Time to start the search over again…
The place that had the '00 frequents Texas to buy diesel Trucks. He told me about a '98 his friend found out there. This 4runner came from Texas for 3 years and California before that, so as you can imagine no rust! This one only had 127K.
shots of truck before coming east...
She did have some issues, which I got taken care of when it got delivered to me. Rear passenger axle seal was blown. Bad stereo install, someone hacked the factory harness to install a subwoofer. They had blown the radio (yes bigger fuse in the radio!) and the main fuse for the accessories. She was dirty, I think I could have created a small dog from all the dog hair in it, luckily it didn’t smell of dog, not like that matters with my two fur balls.
these are before i took delivery...
Long story short, we missed it, but this time we didn’t want new. I had my heart set on a 3rd GEN Sport. I came across a '00 5 Speed Sport (181K) in December of 2013 after looking for 3-4 months. I had it looked over at my local Toyota dealership. With me working parts at a VW dealership, my next door neighbor is our Toyota dealership.
RUST....RUST...RUST and several holes. Time to start the search over again…
The place that had the '00 frequents Texas to buy diesel Trucks. He told me about a '98 his friend found out there. This 4runner came from Texas for 3 years and California before that, so as you can imagine no rust! This one only had 127K.
shots of truck before coming east...
She did have some issues, which I got taken care of when it got delivered to me. Rear passenger axle seal was blown. Bad stereo install, someone hacked the factory harness to install a subwoofer. They had blown the radio (yes bigger fuse in the radio!) and the main fuse for the accessories. She was dirty, I think I could have created a small dog from all the dog hair in it, luckily it didn’t smell of dog, not like that matters with my two fur balls.
these are before i took delivery...
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